Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-25

business acquaintance at Lowell, Mass,
two weeks ago. His accounts have been
found to be correct in every particular,
and 1t is known that he had about $1,000
in bills when he went away. 1t is believed
he committed suicide when temporarily
insane.
Frank o. Parkhurst, a young man 1G
years of age, Friday was found dead in
his room at the Bomoseen House, Castle
ton. He took his life with laudanum.
though chloroform and a revolver were
beside him. He was the son of G.. A.
Parkhurst, a book-keeper of Rutland, and
ran away from home September 4. 1856.
since which he has not been seen or heard
from until this time. Where he has been
meanwhile no one knows.
In the five cases in favor of the First
national bank of st. Adams against E.A.
Sowles, heard before Judge Powers at
st. Adams on Tuesday, DEGREES were en-
tered that the defendant pay $4,000 upon
the several mortgages and leases fore
closed, on or before April /, 1888, and
the balance in one year, or stand fore
closed of all equity of redemption in the
several pieces of real estate described in
the mortgages and leases.
Work on the Bennington battle monu-
ment ceased Wednesday until spring.
The structure, which now stands pre-
cisely 20 feet above the foundation. will
be rooted and otherwise protected from
the elements. Twenty or more stone
cutters will be employed through the
winter in trimming stone, and it is
thought sufficient quantity will be pre-
pared by May to raise the monument to
a height of 100 feet.
A Bellows Falls dispatch says: Rev.
DIR. Malcolm Douglass, a pastor known
throughout Vermont, just deceased at
East Wareham, Mass, left a will with
quite a number of eccentric provisions.
Among them is one that his coffin shall
be a plain pine box, costing, together
with undertaker's expenses. not over $40.
The family are not to wear mourning,
and he asks that the mourners do not
stand at the grave with uncovered heads
if the day of the funeral should be cold
Jack Zero, a Swanton Farmland, is
missing, and case of foul play is sus-
pected. He was last seen with drunken
companions over a week ago, walking
through the lonely marshes along Ma
guam BAY. This path has been explored,
his coat found, also a spot where a fierce
struggle must have taken place. 1t is be-
lieved he was murdered and thrown into
the creek. His companions are at work
in their old places, and profess to know
nothing about Jero's whereabouts.
Nat Norris would like to have some one
unravel a mystery for him. He has been
digging a well and at the depth of ten
feet struck a ledge. Going down into
this about four feet he found imbedded
there live frog. 1t was settled firmly
into the rock with no way out or in until
the digging released him. The frog was
not very lively at first but revived soon
after coming to the light and air. and
hoped out of the pail where he had been
placed and got away Newport En-
press.
1t is gratifying to learn that all the
farming that pays is not in the West. but
that right here in Vermont the soil yields
her increase when properly cultivated.
We have Il case in point: Charles Locke
has five acres of land under cultivation in
the outskirts of st. Johnsbury East vii
lage from which he has this year harvest
ed eight tons of hay and rowen .12O BUSH
els potatoes, 10 bushels ears of corn. 10
bushels oats, II bushels turnipS, four and
a half bushels onions and three bushels
beans. Here is 5000 at least, the product
of these five acres of farm land ST.
Caledonian.
The capital stock of the Woodstock
Aqueduct Co. is 100000. The contract
for constructing the reservoir and laying
the pipes was let to IA Philadelphia com
pany Il year ago this fall, and work was
commenced on the reservoir in June.
The whole work of the aqueduct has
been completed this week. The reser-
voir is about two miles west and is 26O
feet higher than the village. The pipes
are all cast iron, the larger main being
eight inches and the reservoir contains
100000 gallons. All the principal
streets of the village are supplied with
the pipes and the water is being taken
to the houses as fast as possible at the
present time.
a Montpelier dispatch to the Troy
Budget says: The action of the State con-
vention of the W. c. Il. L. in endorsing
the third party movement has resulted in
open dissension in nearly every local
union i'm the State and the disruption of
the organization is imminent. Twenty
of the leading members of the W. {. L.
L. of Mortified have withdrawn. They
say shy the vote of the State W. c. L. L.
we are pledged to give our prayers and
nfuerSe to the support of party which
we believe is hindering our temperance
work" They say, however, they will
not falter in their allegiance to the cause
of individual and national temperance re-
form. 1t is expected that their action
will undoubtedly be initiated bv many in
other towns, so intense is the feeling.
The directors of the Champlain Valley
association at a recent meeting in Bur
lington chose these officers: President.
b. j. Derby; vice-presidents, G. W.
Hooker of BrattlebOrO, c. NJ. Winslow of
Brandon, L. A. Woodbury. of Burlington,
John Quinlan of Charlotte, WillialI Har-
mon of Shelburn, j. l.. Mason of Rich
mond, Henry Chase of Lyndon, j. W.
Stewart and 7. NJ. Chapman of Middle
bury, Hervey Spencer of Burlington, c.
|. Ladd of Milton, G. w. Hendee of Nor
risville, William Moore of Shoreham, F.
G. Wetherbee of Port Henry, John Ham
mond of Crown Point; treasurer, c. w.
Spaulding of Burlington; clerk, c. w.
Brownell, jr., of Burlington; executive
committee. John Gregory Smith, j. A.